Overview

I came to Duke in 2005 from Stanford University, where I served as Associate Director of the Introduction to the Humanities Program and Assistant Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education. At Stanford I worked to strengthen the undergraduate experience by helping to establish the Introduction to the Humanities (IHUM) Program as well as the Freshman Book Program. I also designed and implemented an exemplary training program for more than 40 postdoctoral fellows hired annually to teach in the IHUM Program. In 2001, in recognition of this work, I received Stanford’s Dinkelspiel Award for Distinctive Contributions to Undergraduate Education.
At Duke I have designed and taught, for the English Department, courses that combine canonical and non-canonical works, in a variety of media, to force re-evaluation of the role and impact of “classic” literary genres such as Homeric epic and Shakespearean drama.

Specialties

Renaissance Literature

Research Summary

Shakespeare on page, stage, and screen; English Renaissance literature and culture; creative appropriations of canonical works and literary traditions